Teo STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
Station, there is no reason why the work cannot be carried out 
with the same degree of accuracy on farms about the State as at 
the Station. 7 | 
A summary of the results of fifteen years’ experimenting by 
soil tests with fertilizers on farms throughout New England will 
be found in the last annual report of this Station.* The reader 
is referred to this for a more extended report on the value of 
such experiments and the practical deductions. 
The following persons have codperated in the experiments 
during the past year: 
POST OFFICE. 
Ms n.Dean,. “= - : - - - Falls Village. 
Elbert Manchester, - = = - 2 Bristol. — 
Mer tobb AG. sSperry,= g- - a) ieee - Bolton. 
William E. Alvord, - “ a = - Bolton. 
oni, Latorop, - - - - - North Franklin. 
C. A. Sharpe, - - - - - - - Abington. 
In connection with most of the experiments, rainfall records 
have been kept during the growing season. On page 117 will be 
found the rainfall records for the six months ending October 
31st, for 22 localities in the State. 
TABLE 36. 
Percentages of Dry Matter of Corn in Ears (Grain and Cob), and 
the Number of Pounds of Ears required for a Bushel 
of Shelled Corn. 

Pounds of ears at 
ig 5 7% T 
Water-free Corn harvest to equal 




in ae 66 Ibs. ‘shelled 
NAME AND LOCALITY. at Harvest. corn with: 11% 
water. 
Good. Poor. Good. Poor. 
% % Lbs. Lbs. 
M. H. Dean, Lime Rock, - ~ - 57.5 52.5 83 97 
William E. Alvord, Bolton, - . 57.9 55.5 87 98 
Lm LAE all DRY Sperry, Bolton, - - 55.7 51.0 89 97 
Elbert Manchester, Bristol, - - 54.2 40.0 92 125 
C. A. Sharpe, Abington, - - 2 60.9 53.0 82 94 
C. H. Lathrop, North Franklin, - 56.2 50.7 88 98 




* See Fifth Annual Report, 1892, pages 67-84. 


